Canada’s Senior Women’s team will finally face an opponent not named England on Saturday. All four tests and one mid-week match since the 2017 World Cup have come against senior or academy Red Roses. This weekend’s match will be against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park. The two sides met twice …
Read More »Canada Women start UK tour in England
Canada’s National Senior Women’s team has touched down in England, where they will start their four-match tour against the Red Roses at Doncaster on Sunday. Head coach Sandro Fiorino has taken 31 players for what will be his team’s first and only matches of 2018. Included are 11 members of …
Read More »Arrows confirm a dozen names for 2019 MLR season
The Toronto Arrows have locked in their first 12 players for the 2019 Major League Rugby season, just days after being officially confirmed as competition’s ninth franchise. Eight have played for the team in exhibition fixtures but there are four new names, including three who join from abroad. Front rowers …
Read More »Match Preview – Cardiff Blues vs Uruguay
Uruguay’s four match tour of Europe begins in Wales on Tuesday. In a return to decades gone by the Cardiff Blues will play host to Uruguay in a mid-week match. The teams are unfamiliar to one another though they carry a connection. Uruguay faced Wales in Cardiff in the opening …
Read More »Dragons drop Hong Kong in Repechage tune-up
It was Dragons vs Dragons at Eugene Cross Park in Ebbw Vale on Monday evening as the Welsh regional side played host to Hong Kong in a warm-up match for the latter’s World Cup Qualifying campaign. The full-time score was 28-24, the home side taking the result by virtue of …
Read More »Manoa Scores on Pro 14 Debut
Samu Manoa scored on his Pro 14 debut. Playing in South Africa on Saturday the Californian enforcer scored the only try for the Cardiff Blues who fell to a 21-10 defeat against the Cheetahs. Manoa joined the Cardiff Blues this season from Toulon. He made his debut last weekend in …
Read More »Match officials set for November tests
Nigel Owens will take the field in Chicago on November 3. The world’s most prominent rugby referee takes charge of Ireland’s match against Italy at Soldier Field, with former Harlequins scrumhalf Karl Dickson tabbed to run the rule over the USA’s match against the New Zealand Māori. One of the …
Read More »Uruguay’s World Cup Opponents busy in November
Uruguay’s RWC 2019 opponents are to be busy in the November Internationals. Los Teros are to face Australia, Fiji, Georgia, and Wales at RWC 2019 in Japan. All four will be playing a lot of rugby next month. Australia The Wallabies will be busy in November but less so …
Read More »Canada adds Wales test for November tour
Canada’s Senior Women’s side have completed their itinerary for their November tour to the UK. A test match against Wales on Saturday, November 24, gives them four matches – including three tests – in a span of just ten days. It’s a difficult ask for Sandro Fiorino and team. The …
Read More »Uruguay to play Fiji and Romania in November
Uruguay have secured an impressive four-match schedule for their November tour to Europe. Included are two exhibition matches against Guinness Pro 14 sides and a pair of test matches against high quality opposition – Fiji and Romania. Los Teros will start their three-week trip against Cardiff Blues on Tuesday, November …
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